last of the boston marathon killed story and injured more than one hundred sixty is the worst attack on u.s. soil since nine eleven and comes despite days of heightened security measures sabella as our own. but as well as opposition takes its anger to the streets adding to concerns the oil rich nation is at a crossroads forming a razor thing an election victory for the of chobits. and sixty five years since its founding but also claims to be a beacon of democracy in the middle east its critics say france turning into a hub for hardline of religious right wingers. this is aussie families who live in moscow hello and welcome to the. twin blasts at

the finish line of the boston marathon have left three dead including an eight year old boy well to one hundred forty are in hospital with the virus injuries many have lost limbs in the bombings no one has claimed responsibility for the terror talk while the white house says they perpetrate as will feel the full weight of justice as all she's mine apart now or false. u.s. president barack obama said that the u.s. does not yet have all the answers as to who is behind. why they did this but obama said the u.s. will find out who did it and will hold him accountable he would not go into detail he said an investigation is ongoing and that. u.s. federal officials will be helping out boston in any way that city needs as they continue searching for clues as to what caused two to the bombings their work proximately twenty seven thousand people participating in the boston marathon and tens of thousands on the streets watching the event and also securing the perimeter

ironically there were so many police officers on the scene so many emmaus workers this explosion went off and just about ten seconds later a second explosion went off there is some horrific images out there of some of the victims some of whom have lost limbs what history has shown is that if the u.s. is attached washington to brutality and it has retaliated over the course of more than a decade we did have the patriot act in the aftermath of the september eleventh attacks that the department of homeland security was created then the controversial drone program was implemented under the ministration of george w. bush and it was carried out double down on by president barack obama but what many would argue is that even with all those different measures put in place through war through surveillance that it still doesn't prevent horrific attacks like the one

scene unfolding in boston. and also you spoke with current kimball who witnessed the tragedy and described the carryall so the terrorist scene. i was there with my sister she had left work early and she when the first bomb went off there was just a silence that went over the crowd and then immediately scream started happening and she grabbed my hand and said just start running so we started running but the place where we were at where the stage comes out where people run through the finish line and the crowd bottlenecks and it became an immediately very very scary situation where a woman was on her bike and had fallen and people were just on able to get out and at that point the second bomb went off and i that was when i really found to meet up this was something that i could perhaps die from and i think that was when i became more of a this wasn't just an accident or an electrical problem that this was

a definitely an intentional act incident and the rock wall that turned drawn here on the is the building will be used by washington to justify an additional security step of the extensive measures already in place failed to prevent the tragedy. even with a peach or attacked even with it and the even with the survey on states that it's been going on even with with that with all the wars going on you know in enough gas and in yemen and in pakistan and all the truant program is attacked not to happen i'm not going to speculate on the on who did what and whether or not this was caused by a foreign national it was just it was caused by domestic terrorists one thing is for sure that the government the united states government will give use this as an excuse to continue on to try on the trajectory of even more surveillance of even law our think security of even more i mean what's next t.s.a.

at at at every maverick on t.s.a. in every street corner that's going to be the solutions and that's going to be put forward for the past that basement past decade you know when you when you call some on that terrorist you're basically saying that that what the government does is right to terrorists or people accuse of terrorism to europe ok with that your opinion with them being definitely didn't stand being put in get no you're ok with them being spied on you are you are ok with them being assassinated because that then is what peter does government is doing to people suspect did of terrorism as day without say for the latest on the boston bombing and we've got more details on the novices' on that topic on our website. in venezuela's commerce whole caracas police have fines tear gas to disperse crowds protesting the official results of the presidential election is chaos have been as well as electro

but it rejected calls for a recount of sunday's vote but mrs hunt picked to assess that with a with a bunch of razor thin majority and there's a scene or reports uniting the nation is going to prove a tough toss with a new to president elect when the results of the presidential election on april fourteenth was announced there were huge celebrations in this district heavily supporting nicolas maduro the so-called successor. now his supporters tell me that over both the margin between my daughter and his main opposition in this was very small they say that with this victory the spirit of the. chavez continues to live on in the for a very very big job there's a lot of problems that he has to solve even supporters reiterate the fact that there are a lot of problems that have to be addressed such as food shortages medicine shortages as well as the issue of crime being really want this addressed because

they say they just don't feel safe on the streets but there was also with parroting the one of the world's largest oil reserves the world will be watching on how this is going to be managed moving forward and also will have a quite a very short a grace period including his ability to unite a very divided country we've seen in the elections it was almost a fifty fifty split between. the u.s. and one more test would be to see the military support you know that will go chavez was was a former army commander you have the military support and this is something that model will have to work on but perhaps the biggest challenge for nicolas maduro is filling his predecessor shoes as many of his supporters have been saying a vote for model is in fact a vote for who got chavez. and independent election election observer dr julian bucks and believes these seemingly fly of the road could spark major tensions around the oil rich state it's a very slim margin but the process i observed yesterday was one that was fair it

was transparent this is a fully automated voting process obviously this was a very very narrow victory from a doro but really to call into question the capacity in the technical feasibility of the voting system i think is very very unfortunate i think the way that this should be presented is actually to the see any which that should then investigate rather than this been something which is used as a mechanism to generate publicity so i think we really need to wait for the results of the see any investigation before we can comment on that my immediate concern now is that if the united states does not recognize the election process here in the picture of majority this is going to once again put venezuela and the united states on a very very strong bilateral clash there's going to be even more problems going forward in that relationship spain i believe has come out and said that it's not prepared to recognize the picture at the moment again i think it's very unfortunate somewhat irresponsible for these countries to be pronouncing so soon and we really need to see the audit of this voting process before we should be making such diplomatic declarations. and then as well as volatile as they watched closely by the international community as the country sits on some of the biggest crude oil

reserves in the world and business on this natasha talks to my colleagues about a lot of stake that went as well is actually a very juicy morsel what i comes to oil and gas especially oil it has a whopping two hundred ninety seven billion barrels of oil reserves comparable only to saudi arabia and actually that higher than saudi arabia which is the world's leading or energy exporter now when it comes to export oil it's actually ninety five percent of its export revenues come from energy so that really makes russia's energy dependency pale in comparison so essentially it's a dime in the rough relatively low production levels but a huge potential there huge potential there we just need to. i suppose of the labor working there and also the infrastructure to get the oil out from underneath the ground regardless of who actually takes the top job in venezuelan politics how could that affect the energy policy very well the effect could actually be dramatic

would you it's more or less clear a lot of policy continuity and of course we're probably going to see the left as governments in latin america continue to receive support now with capri that is it's not as clear we could see a complete about face when it comes to energy policies but even if. we see that at the moment that everything stays as it is it's really a signal that the previous has a lot of support not only within that as well but also outside of the country and of course you know u.s. energy companies cannot wait to get back into the country have to being kicked out of there where you talk about u.s. companies or not as you were saying earlier with venezuela having such a huge reserve of oil for the world there must be some major global players who are keeping an extraordinarily close watch on venezuela right well essentially it's a fight between russia and the united states with china also being a major player they are not markets u.s. companies as i mentioned were kicked out starting in the seventy's when the oil and

gas sector was nationalized but really that policy was cemented during charges ironically it's still the biggest consumer of venezuelan oil but it's really trying to get back into the country now russia has a major presence there all of the country's oil and gas companies have long term contracts in that as well and of course china is a huge investor just several years ago china's state owned bank agreed to lend venezuela a whopping forty billion dollars against future crude sales so there you go interesting stuff indeed we'll have to see how this port will pans out r.t.o. business i was to touch on your sky a pleasure thanks for coming on today. and dot com we are asking you what's next for venezuela and nicolas maduro and here what you're saying right now so over the whole of you predict chaos in the oil rich states say the u.s. will interfere because it's not satisfied with the result around

a quarter twenty four percent of you believe charges this plan will succeed and twenty first century socialism will be established so this out fifteen percent of you don't believe we'll be able to handle the job and the economy it will start of eight just the minority things the country will see more protests over the narrow road so you dot com is where you can go and tell us what you think. and coming up in just a couple of minutes as greece's secures another bailout package from its international lenders takes a look at what the financial strain has done to the country's industrial sector that's nice.

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this is the line from moscow welcome back gras celebrations may be over north korea but there are clues of nation is not toning down its warlike rhetoric the communist state issued more threats of action on monday as it marks the basque day of its founder kim il sung pyongyang gave little hens cheer and festivities that its latest missile test launches imminent with people gathering in squares with flowers to pay tribute to their leaders we have both washington and seoul's military forces are still on guard in the pacific watching north korea's every move some experts claim the huge sums of money spent by the u.s. only to what it calls maintain peace on the peninsula is exactly what's provoking pm gangs have the rhetoric and joins that's up from the institute for policy studies believes that as a rueful progress in negotiations on the nuclear question but only if america softens its. there have been a number of initiatives coming from the obama administration some meetings in the

past over the in the first term even though the official policy was of course strategic patience in other words basically ignoring north korea as long as possible china of course is very interested in seeing negotiations go forward south korea under its new leadership are could have a has proposed discussions with the north so all signs point toward negotiations on the other hand the united states has also said look there might be some preconditions here and preconditions in the past of basically scotched any attempt to have any negotiations so i think of the united states really wants to see some negotiations moving forward it's going to have to go to the table without any preconditions. i'm staying with north korea the b.b.c. is under fire for pushing the boundaries of essex for a good story in the london school of economics believes the broadcaster used by its students as a cover to shoot

a documentary about the secretive state without the university is concerned so the general secretary of the. students' union alex peters day explains why the situation is causing such that the group was just told that their one journalist would be a print journalist only it wasn't until they actually arrived in north korea did they find out that they'll be a document to which they be appearing on it wasn't until they arrived in beijing to fly over to north korea that they were joined by the journalist when we're talking about a trip like this where the risks are involved i think it's so important machines would have been briefed all stages and would be made aware and they just went in this case the b.b.c. deliberately mis held information from them i mean they could have been detained a couple of years ago and to an american journalist were found to have been doing undercover journalism in north korea they're both sentenced to nine years of hard labor obviously right now as we just heard the climate north korea is even more heightened than it was back then but students should have the right to make that decision for themself whether or not they're going to face danger and the problem

for us is that the b.b.c. made that decision for them and students after returning home they received threatening letters from the north korean government and now we're in a situation where not only is the wealth of our students at risk but also elysees work academic work in researching places like north korea and other political sense of areas which is so important that's been jeopardized because alice is now associated with undercover in illegal activities with students lives and i think that's not ok and for the b.b.c. to go out publicly and say deceit is ok and that and the length they will get their thirty minute documentary i think i send such a negative message especially at this time when the b.b.c.'s reputation isn't perfect and i think they should make sure they have enough trust in their viewers. and later in the. steam grayson that's as clear as a raise in the u.k. to let known public broadcasters ditch the impartiality clause and present their coverage in a way that reflects the company's views and opinions so the details are coming up and. after paying tribute to its fallen on memorial day

on monday israel should in celebrations for its sixty fifth anniversary since the nation was founded back in nineteen forty eight it's already had the chance to meet in peace with its neighbors all these policy explains why. the country celebrates its sixty fifth birthday but it comes against the backdrop of settlement expansion continuing it also ignores the existence of a huge palestinian population of which israel cannot control these kind of steps twitter and many are warning in effect to back we see this in many editorials they threatening to turn israel into a non democratic country where doc style of religion holds sway and there is a sizable and noticeable upsurge in the song white religious minority in this country that is both small and does have a very vocal representation and this is why many are saying sixty five years on the

country claims to be the only democracy in this region but there are real concerns over just how much power the religious have on monday the country held its national memorial day it is a day for israel's foreign soldiers as well as victims of terror there were a number of alternative memorials that were held these calls for attention to be paid to palestinian victims that they received very little attention in the mainstream media the criticism by and large is that it will commemorate all its wars as having had the higher moral ground when in fact there are very big questions over whether or not many of the wars were in fact the more such as the fifty six sinai campaign the eighty two war in lebanon and the two palestinian intifada these are wars that are controversial but they are not presented like that in the general israeli discourse although there are widespread celebrations throughout the country there are a lot of person and important and critical questions that are being asked the situation between israel and its bordering countries is unclear the situation

between israel and the palestinian territories is ambiguous and the future status over jerusalem is also unresolved many are saying that in fact the situation between israel and its neighbors remains fragile and unstable which is why many are asking what exactly is there to cheer about sixty five years on. the u.s. military has confirmed the number of hunger striking detainees at guantanamo bay has gone up again and now stands at forty five that's still around three times less than the figure claimed by the laws of the captives as the process nears the middle of its third months do so many disparate has been growing with security gasparino missile rounds over the weekend when several inmates resisted being put into single cells the militarist says it's for speeding sosina of the cops have super run them from dying from starvation and while it ministration officials claim washington still committed to shutting down the facility described legal hurdles preventing

its closure even the repatriation of detainees cleared for release. so we don't have to our web site all to dot com to get more comprehensive coverage of today's top news and stories from around the world a bride ball of flame lit up the sky about this punish capital murder very bustling astronomers and onlookers learn more about the mysterious altered online. says they are going to call me is expected to train the country's most notorious illegal industry poppy cultivation is reportedly set to hit a record high this year get the details at allstate all call. calls are being made in britain to riyadh says the way the country's broadcasters bring news to the public and initiative aims to free them from their legal duty to up hold impulsion ality a lead that coverage reflect the opinions of the oed is always point to boycott reports. the way that news papers and news channels are regulated in the u.k.

is stossel any different so newspapers and online news portals they still regulate themselves that means that they can be as politically biased as they please the example being the guardian on the left in the u.k. or the london times on the right but for news channels it's a whole different story they're legally bound by off to be impartial and if they're deemed not to be they can be fined or even have their license revoked but in a day and age when the media is converging annis portals are looking more like television channels and television channels have their own websites is this regulation or a distinction fair and does it make sense well the lords communication committee have come out with a report recommending that the government removes the impartiality rules from known public broadcast says i'm joined by lord richard inglewood who's the chairman of the lords communication committee to talk about this so if the way that no industry

is regulated right now is outdated is that impartiality or sport for us to compete york city tonight not entirely no we firmly advocate that the public service broadcasters in this country should be assisted the exactly the same way as they do not doesn't personality exist at all well it's a very slippery concept as you quite rightly say but one of the advantages of a plural media landscape is that different people will approach the question of. impartiality from slightly different perspectives i don't think you can say impartiality means that there is one way of doing it which is the only right way but what impartiality does do is cut out the kind of political proselytizing but you're quite right in saying you find in quite a number of newspapers and in certain news providers from outside our jurisdiction already you can get stuff off the internet from these other companies providing with extremely partial use at the end of the day in the world of the internet if you really want to you're always going to be able to find anything lord richard

inglewood thank you very much for your comment well thank you very much for taking part. greece has managed to secure a bailout package worth eight point eight billion euros from the european union after agreeing to cuts that include slash will four thousand public sector jobs almost three times more jobs are expected to be cut next year so they're grim and between the country's government and foreign creditors was reached after almost two weeks of difficult negotiations and as the country struggles to get back on its feet it's been hunted by another industrial sector literally crumbling to pieces of his time battle has the story. cobwebs outside rain falls on the still and silent bits attackers plastic piping from tree confess along nicky northern greece inside the machines have been unused since banks stopped investing and the owner of the oldest puts attackers fled in two thousand and ten one of his workers also be old gus did meet the end just warms up to that he and ninety five

other staff owed seven million euros in wages with a look at the after short talk i had to force myself to leave so i wouldn't hurt him workers see that they are being made to bear the cost of greece's economic woes this is at the store. and of course the. pain is. very unequal across the industrial northern greece the story is repeated this fertilizer factory used to be a center of northern greek industry nowadays though by economics feral file it's a ghost factory and the only fertilizer coming in here is imported from elsewhere in europe it produced specialised fertilizers until one day the workers were called together and told by the owners that the know how for their products had been sold off and that operations would be stopped they are all of the it's criminal that a profitable industry was shut down an industry that produced high quality material

of the human workers now see the cruel irony that since the factories closing fertilizer prices have tripled but it's a wider fear that one skilled workforce is a laid off it's all too hard to bring them back or got them us in the path of those against us the unemployment rate here is thirty percent by the years and it could be over thirty eight with no fission policy the situation is out of control s. he said he them of the workers across northern greece are desperate desperate to keep their jobs to get back into jobs and to be paid for their work it doesn't help ease their concerns when they're in positions like yoga classes have been unemployed for three years and he's off skiing in switzerland to martin r.t. . and up next we'll explore the russian republic of chechnya in our special report .

of no hole lazy bureaucratic and trivial censorship strikes again. at this time in russia a bill has been signed into law that will put fines on individuals and legal entities for using vulgar in the media one major flaw of many with this is that they really don't know which words are going to be considered vulgar i guess these words are so awful that they cannot even write them down i'm not naïve there has always been and will always be censorship but this where word list is just silly there is a common expression on the russian internet that russian mainstream media more and eyes ation of society russian t.v. does have all the bloody violent action movies as well as scandalous talk shows which are kind of like freak shows and plenty of reality t.v.

where young people pretty much act like subhuman animals in a cage they've got all that so the government is basically saying that if some guy on t.v. because there are twenty people blooded limbs flying that that is totally ok for television unless they come out and forbid swear while doing it you can show brainless materialistic dimwits sweeping and fighting with everything that moves on a reality show but if they say that one magic three letter russian word then it is over the line this is not a logical way to conduct censorship but that's just my opinion. could you take three. three. three. three. three. three. videos for your.

lives and works in grozny the capital of the chechen republic. the city had been reduced to ruins by the years of war. chechnya has survived two military operations to curb separatist militants. and a clear danger from terrorist groups in the region. was completely dead. finding took place here the presidential palace was completely destroyed. courses were scattered all around the place. here the car started shaking struck the car on the wheels or blown. tires. never thought fully.